There was nothing special about the German people that gave birth to the Nazis. Often times people wonder what it is about Germany that gave birth to such an out of control political system, and to that I will say "nothing at all". You see -
Governments tend to attract the worst of people, and if left un checked the worst of people will seek to subjugate everyone they govern. Ordinary people tend to be blind to the fact that it is the criminal intellects that seek the top of the power structure in every society, because from the top of the power structure - from the protection that allows, criminals can perpetrate the worst of crimes and walk away unscathed. One good example is the banker bailout, which totally out classed any heist that would have put a lesser criminal away forever.
When these criminals rise to power they want to protect that status. To accomplish this they seek the worst of people to fill their security forces, people who would, if left in the masses without a purpose, would more frequently than the rest of the population be the control freaks, abusers, rapists and other low level criminals. These are the types of intellects the elite criminals want to give a paycheck to because these lower intellects will have no scruples about oppressing and enforcing criminal laws against correctly functioning moralistic innocents.
If you look through the police forces in America now, the state auditors, the tax collectors, and other enforcement types, you will find that they are now comprised mainly of control freaks, abusers, and people who will act to hurt others without having a concience about anything they do. Many times I have heard police officers and other enforcement types say Yeah, I know it ain't right, but ITS THE LAW, and I have to enforce it.
People with morals won't enforce what is wrong regardless of what orders they are given or what a corrupted law says, so to ensure the "right" aemoralistic tyrant types are enlisted to government positions, the elite criminals at the top of the chain develop personality profiling tests to make sure only the types of people they want in those positions get into them. And A-holes exist in every society, It does not take a "Germany" to accomplish it.
The only thing it takes to establish a Hitlerian police state is for the good people to do nothing while such a system of evil is being put into place, which once in place is virtually impossible to get rid of. These types of systems happen when good people do nothing to stop evil from prevailing. And that is precisely what has happened to America now, bad people exist in every society and will crush the good if allowed to do so. Nazis exist in every society, indeed, they are us.
Now people are noticing that their Kindle Fires are in fact book burners, with the latest fatality being the book 1984. So it seems that the elite do not want that particular work in circulation, and if you have it in a phony e-book form kiss it goodbye. I have also noticed that my own systems get edited - articles I wrote years ago get changed. On top of that, people have asked me for the classified antidepressant files and when I went back to them they got synchronized with the non classified versions, the hacks against personal computers are THAT BAD compliments of the NSA. With the nifty search functions that can google your own PC built into all the operating systems now, it is perfectly possible to sync all your stored documents with "elite approved" versions and the tweaks are done in a very subtle way, leaving you thinking to yourself "I thought it was different than that, I guess that's not what it said".
Fortunately the GSK antidepressant files are backed up on flash drives spread across the U.S. that have never been synchronized, but I have to have someone bring me down one of the drives (not mailed) so I can plug it into a fresh machine with no internet access and recover the files in original form.